tgentry

Send whatever you have. Even if we don't think it's quite right for a daily, we might want to debut it in a PLUS sale under our D contract. There's no up front payout, but you'd get paid $2 for every product sold. It would also appear permanently in the Digital Catalog and could reappear in future PLUS sales on multiple products. If you're interested in the D contract as a Plan B to a daily print, feel free to mention that with your submission.

I've been thinking it would be great to run an entire PLUS sale devoted to nothing but weird, offbeat stuff. If you have something that fits the bill, and are OK with a D contract, send it in! Maybe we can put something together.

For dailies, you can't go wrong with anything sciencey, slogany, or cute. Spring's coming up, so now's a great time to start getting those in. We're also on the lookout for Mothers/Fathers day designs, pets, music...

And since I've created this thread, how about some ideas for future PLUS sales? Who would you like to see curate their own PLUS sale?

Narfcake

Mavyn wrote:The purple side sale was awesome. I vote for more with colors outside the usual spectrum. ...

I would love a Purplepalooza II, but only if it remains on Eggplant blanks.

Anvil has since added new standard colors to all three product lines (980/880/990B) and I'm thinking it's moreso because of Threadless (and not Woot) that prompted the added product offerings since they're supplying their new blanks too.

1 - not a standard 980 color, but is a color in other products.
2 - not a standard 880 color
3 - not a standard 990B color
4 - will Charcoal replace this? The current Smoke is noticably darker than the old AA Asphalt color; Charcoal is a standard color in all three product lines now.
5 - Anvil's purple is not as deep as a shade as AA's eggplant, hence it's not an equivalent.

blk909

tsukitensh

My idea for a plus sale is "Celebrate Your Uniqueness", or something to that effect (I had a better name last night at 3am, but sadly I can't remember it now). Celebrating those who do their own thing, or don't quite fit in, the sale would feature designs such as:

benjaminleebates

Send whatever you have. Even if we don't think it's quite right for a daily, we might want to debut it in a PLUS sale under our D contract. There's no up front payout, but you'd get paid $2 for every product sold. It would also appear permanently in the Digital Catalog and could reappear in future PLUS sales on multiple products. If you're interested in the D contract as a Plan B to a daily print, feel free to mention that with your submission.

I've been thinking it would be great to run an entire PLUS sale devoted to nothing but weird, offbeat stuff. If you have something that fits the bill, and are OK with a D contract, send it in! Maybe we can put something together.

For dailies, you can't go wrong with anything sciencey, slogany, or cute. Spring's coming up, so now's a great time to start getting those in. We're also on the lookout for Mothers/Fathers day designs, pets, music...

And since I've created this thread, how about some ideas for future PLUS sales? Who would you like to see curate their own PLUS sale?

GOT IT!
So starting with "A," do a weekly PLUS sale with an animal or several animal types that begin with that week's letter!
People can even start subbing for dailies anticipating upcoming letters!
WHATCHA think?

tsukitensh

benjaminleebates wrote:GOT IT!
So starting with "A," do a weekly PLUS sale with an animal or several animal types that begin with that week's letter!
People can even start subbing for dailies anticipating upcoming letters!
WHATCHA think?

I think that would be difficult given that some letters would have far, far too many options to choose from (C for example. Have you seen the number of cat shirts woot offers? Not to mention crows, cows, chickens, etc.)... while others would be very difficult to gather enough designs for.

It would also mean months of animal plus sales. Personally, I like the diversity of themes these sales offer. I also get excited to find out the new themes each week, so predictability isn't necessarily a plus (no pun intended).

benjaminleebates

tsukitensh wrote:I think that would be difficult given that some letters would have far, far too many options to choose from (C for example. Have you seen the number of cat shirts woot offers? Not to mention crows, cows, chickens, etc.)... while others would be very difficult to gather enough designs for.

It would also mean months of animal plus sales. Personally, I like the diversity of themes these sales offer. I also get excited to find out the new themes each week, so predictability isn't necessarily a plus (no pun intended).

I think you could do the animal letter thing biweekly, and pick unique animals for the letters. NOT C for cats, but rather crow or cow.

arryielle

benjaminleebates wrote:GOT IT!
So starting with "A," do a weekly PLUS sale with an animal or several animal types that begin with that week's letter!
People can even start subbing for dailies anticipating upcoming letters!
WHATCHA think?

I like the idea of doing alphabetical plus sales, but I don't think animals would be good for every week (unless that was indeed the A, followed by perhaps Bandwidth - any sort of internet theme such as 1971-Floppy diskette or Outrage). But with different subjects for each letter, I think that would be cool. Maybe Quirky shirts (like the odd ones out listed above), Video Game references, Honorable Mentions, Ninjas, Sci-fi and Xenobiology (for Q, V, H, N, S and X)!

tsukitensh

benjaminleebates wrote:I think you could do the animal letter thing biweekly, and pick unique animals for the letters. NOT C for cats, but rather crow or cow.

If you are using animals, that still leaves the problem of letters with only one or two- or possibly zero- applicable designs. And since woot usually does two plus sales a week, making it biweekly would increase what I said before about predictability, not to mention being overrun with animal designs.

Arryielle - I like that idea. Although still being alphabetic, there is no way to know what the theme will be, and except for letters like X, there would be too many possibilities to even guess a likely theme. Keeps the surprise AND design diversity.

benjaminleebates

tsukitensh wrote:If you are using animals, that still leaves the problem of letters with only one or two- or possibly zero- applicable designs. And since woot usually does two plus sales a week, making it biweekly would increase what I said before about predictability, not to mention being overrun with animal designs.

Arryielle - I like that idea. Although still being alphabetic, there is no way to know what the theme will be, and except for letters like X, there would be too many possibilities to even guess a likely theme. Keeps the surprise AND design diversity.

I concede your point.
Any subject will do, but to keep it fun, really stretch that imagination with what the letter represents; don't just cop out with N is for ninjas and P is for pirates. But rather N is for Nuts and P is for Pythagorus; just examples of something wacky.

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